Pink DMs: Bloodhound in a Sheep Pen

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Life in Barbados with sheep, cows, chickens and dogs. As far removed from the Civil Service and building sites as you can get.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Bloodhound in a Sheep Pen





Hello Friends,
A couple of months ago our little dogs chased a bag of bones into the sheep pen. It stayed there and set up home under the pig-sty. Well, we took to feeding it twice a day and making sure it had water aplenty and left it to get on with its own mind-set. Obviously, it had issues surrounding choosing to live under a pig pen rather than run around the fields chasing field-mice and rats like the other dogs.
This had gone on for a while and we got tired of that so a length of rope was run through a pole; the end of the rope, which had a noose around it, was placed over the dog's head and tightened round her neck and she was dragged out, snarling and reluctant. She didn't bite or bark but had to quieten herself down when she started to choke from the noose against her windpipe. Well, the noose was loosened and the dragging began again. We got her out of the pig pen and into the garage for the night. We left a bowl of fresh fish and dog food and a tub of ice water for her but she touched none of it. Anyway, we moved her back to the sheep pen for the day as it's cooler there and then in the evening she was taken for a walk around the field. Back to the sheep pen she was taken, to spend the night tied up but outside of the pigpen, then in the morning we went to check on her. The little bleep had starved herself for the two days she was out and therefore was able to slip her head from through the dog collar and escape back under the pen!
Well, back under the pen with the rope on the pole and she is now out and walking the fields while attached to a long piece of rope. She has been named PigPen - Penny for short - and is an extremely docile animal with a particular fear of tiny children.
These are some pictures of her taken over the weeks.